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🧠 The Think Tank Series: Minds That Shape Healing

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  🧠 The Think Tank Series: Minds That Shape Healing True transformation isn’t just about changing the body — it’s about awakening the mind and restoring the spirit. The Think Tank Series honors the teachers who’ve guided me through the deeper layers of healing — the parts that science begins, but soul completes. Each thinker offered me a light: Carl Jung helped me face the shadow and rewrite the stories beneath old wounds. Dr. Sigmund Freud revealed the roots of my subconscious habits and how they shape my choices. Frantz Fanon taught me to reclaim my agency and confront inherited psychological patterns. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing reminded me that healing also means confronting systemic and ancestral imprints that shape identity and behavior. Patrice Malidoma Somé reconnected me to ritual, ancestry, and the sacred energy of transformation. Michael Beckwith and Iyanla Vanzant helped me align my vibration — teaching that healing flows from self-forgiveness, spiritual practice ...

Facing the Shadows and Reclaiming the Whole Self

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                                               Facing the Shadows and Reclaiming the Whole Self with the help of GLP-1 After exploring Freud’s world of the unconscious , I was left asking — what do I do with everything I’d uncovered? Enter Dr. Carl Jung , the thinker who gave language to the deeper work — the part where we don’t just recognize the unconscious, we befriend it. Jung taught that the “shadow” holds the parts of ourselves we’ve exiled — our anger, shame, grief, but also our creativity, intuition, and power. It’s not just darkness; it’s potential waiting to be integrated. That truth shifted everything for me. When I began my GLP-1 journey , I thought I was simply addressing physical health. But as my body found balance, I realized how much emotional weight I’d been carrying. The mirror became a truth-teller. Each pound released carried memories, emotions...